I have a parametric search which let's the users search using the following criteria: two taxonomies and two custom text fields. Once the user enters values for each field they click submit and are taken to a target page with the View that contains any search results. If they don't see anything come up in the search they then click on a link to Add a new listing via CRED form. What I would like help on is the following:
1. I need the taxonomy fields and text fields of the parametric search to be required.
2. I need the link to "Add a new listing" to only appear if no results are found.
3. I need the values entered/selected in the search form to auto-fill in the CRED form, so that users don't have to re-enter the information again, which current users find tedious/annoying.
Thank you in advance for your help with these items!
Q1) I need the taxonomy fields and text fields of the parametric search to be required.
I assume we are talking about those taxonomy fields and text fields which are outputted from Views shortcode [wpv-control]: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-control
as you can see in above document, there isn't such an option to setup the fields as required, so there isn't such a built-in feature within Views plugin, if you agree, we can take it as a feature request, our developers will evaluate it
Q2) I need the link to "Add a new listing" to only appear if no results are found.
Yes, it is possible, you can wrap the link "Add a new listing" into Views shortcode [wpv-no-items-found] ... [/wpv-no-items-found], see our document: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-no-items-found
Content wrapped with [wpv-no-items-found][/wpv-no-items-found] will be output if there are no posts, taxonomies or users returned by the View.
Q3) I need the values entered/selected in the search form to auto-fill in the CRED form, so that users don't have to re-enter the information again, which current users find tedious/annoying.
Yes, it is possible, you can try this:
1) In the "Add a new listing" link, pass URL parameters to the target page
2) in the target page, display a CRED form
3) use Views shortcode [wpv-search-term] to get the URL parameter values, and setup it as default
value of CRED shortcode [cred_field]
Neither is populating automatically to include the search terms, but the text fields I have set up for the two other search terms are populating automatically properly.
I read a few posts in the forum and it looks like you cannot pass a default value to a taxonomy in WP-Types just yet. If that truly remains an impossibility is there a way to pass the search term values in a cred_before_save_data function? I would need assistance, or at the very least some guidance in doing so, if that is the only option for passing the default taxonomy values.
Thank you again Luo for all of your help so far and in advance for helping me get this last issue resolved.
Luo is on vacation and this is Minesh here and I'll take care of this ticket and try to help you further. Hope this is OK.
Is it possible for you to share problem URL so I can check what I can do to set default taxonomy term to your taxonomy dropdown?
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